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892 KAUFMANNSCHAFT und FINANZWESEN. - (Mandeville, Bernard de). The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits. With an Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools. And a Search into the Nature of Society. 2 Bde. Ldn., Tonson, 1728 u. 1729. 8°. 8 Bll., 477 SS.; Tit., XXXI, 432 SS., 12 Bll. Braun Ldr. im Stil d. Zt. mit reicher Rverg., 2 farb. Rsch., goldgepr. Bord. a. d. Deckeln. Schätzpreis: (340,- €) / (425,- $) Vgl. Brunet II, 1147; Ebert 7252: "Irreligiös u. unmoralisch"; Kress S. 3281; Ueberweg III, 213; Ziegenfuß/J. II, 115. - Bd. 1 in fünfter, Bd. 2 in erster Ausgabe. - "Mandeville gave great offense by this book, in which a cynical system of morality was made attractive by ingenious paradoxes... His doctrine that prosperity was increased by expenditure rather than by saving fell in with many current economic fallacies not yet extinct. Assuming with the ascetics that human desires were essentially evil and therefore produced private vicespublic benefit
892 KAUFMANNSCHAFT und FINANZWESEN. - (Mandeville, Bernard de). The Fable of the Bees: or, Private Vices, Publick Benefits. With an Essay on Charity and Charity-Schools. And a Search into the Nature of Society. 2 Bde. Ldn., Tonson, 1728 u. 1729. 8°. 8 Bll., 477 SS.; Tit., XXXI, 432 SS., 12 Bll. Braun Ldr. im Stil d. Zt. mit reicher Rverg., 2 farb. Rsch., goldgepr. Bord. a. d. Deckeln. Schätzpreis: (340,- €) / (425,- $) Vgl. Brunet II, 1147; Ebert 7252: "Irreligiös u. unmoralisch"; Kress S. 3281; Ueberweg III, 213; Ziegenfuß/J. II, 115. - Bd. 1 in fünfter, Bd. 2 in erster Ausgabe. - "Mandeville gave great offense by this book, in which a cynical system of morality was made attractive by ingenious paradoxes... His doctrine that prosperity was increased by expenditure rather than by saving fell in with many current economic fallacies not yet extinct. Assuming with the ascetics that human desires were essentially evil and therefore produced private vicespublic benefit